Xenodu.

A Fantasy, A Musical, A Place Where Dreams Come True.

Aqueous transmission is still a song that never fails to get a “Okay, what song is this?” whenever I play it for someone.

My favourite incubus album without a doubt.

My first Zappa album, and Peaches En Regalia was my first Zappa track. Still love it to this day.

“A day may come when the courage of men fails when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day.” An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down. But it is not this day. This day we fight”

Martin Luther King Jr.

I occasionally drop by Head-Fi

My favorite old school forum is the Silent Hill community at Silent Hill Heaven / silenthillforum

I miss the IMDB forums. Each movie had their own individual forum threads.

''You know what i learned today? I’m not like you."

You can have an Ethan Hawke catharsis marathon.

Training Day, a movie about a rookie cop who gets paired with a corrupt senior on his first day who manipulates him from the beginning. ''I should have been a fireman"

Gattaca. I am not sure if you can call it an absolute ringer, but it does feel all the hard work pays off in the end.

Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid.

Another Customer by Andy Ditzler

A guy talking to himself or to another person who is on the phone with customer service, and then while on hold starts to ponder about life.

A game like Hunt Showdown, an extraction based game set in 1895 Louisiana, fighting other hunters on the same map to get to the bounty (a boss that everyone goes after) and extract.

Imagine that game, but set in something like in the Star Wars world, With lightsabers and blasters in dagobah or tattoine, going after a boss like Darth Maul or Yoda, while every other bounty hunter is going for the same target.

Alot of the serious things that people here already mentioned, unable to see a bright future for humanity. Cant afford a house of your own, etc.

But another thing that affects me day to day is Seeing stray cats and dogs on the side of the road. They just make me sad and then i have the urge to help them. And then realizing that i cannot help them all.

Kevin Spacey. We all thought he was a great actor playing all those psychopaths, but turns out he was just playing himself.

Malice Mizer. The band had three different vocalists, and each time the music style and direction was different.

It went from Prog Goth rock (Tetsuo) to lighter Art / Synth Pop (Gackt), and then lastly dark metal (Klaha), all while maintaining its classical influence throughout.

I am a fan of Gene Wolfe’s books, especially The Book of the New Sun. The main character of the books is named Severian, who claims he has ‘‘perfect memory’’ (or how he remembers things the way he prefers it)

Wish to play new games like Battlebit, but realistically I only have time for one game, which is Hunt Showdown.

There is a new update with a new boss, new weather, new guns. Great time to be a Hunt fan.

Hmm, I can see what you mean. “I just don’t care”

“That’s why cleaners exist right?” “We are giving the cleaners something to do” “This is not my public space”

The sort of thing people would say when you ask why do they do this.

I’ve seen all sorts of people. People who throw rubbish out from their Mercedes sedan. People who throw their plastic containers onto the sidewalk from the motorbike while waiting for the green light.

Funny true story. A colleague of mine was having a smoke with a Japanese guy who was visiting our country on a business trip.

My colleague threw the cigarette butt onto the floor after finishing. The Japanese guy went to pick up the cigarette butt that my colleague threw on the ground, and threw it into the dustbin nearby. My colleague never felt so embarrassed seeing him do that.

That’s why I think it’s education and upbringing.

People who litter. Throw their rubbish out the window of the car. Or who throw rubbish in public, like into drains or sidewalks.

It’s in the mentality, and I say the lack of education is the reason for it.

It’s sad to see the people of my country do this, and to see it with your own eyes.

Hello there Hexarei. I am glad you checked it out and found it at the very least interesting. I get nervous in real life when i introduce Shoegaze to people, because I am afraid they will think it sounds…off. And then I have difficulty explaining why it sounds great to me.

Okay, I am going to assume you listened to My Bloody Valentine. The music sounds hazy and distorted, and the vocals and lyrics are unclear.

This is because the they use a lot of guitar pedal effects (reverb, delay, distortion, etc) and specific tunings to achieve the wall of sound. The vocals are buried along side the guitar effects, as it is meant to be part of the “sound”, like the vocals are another instrument in the song. The melodies are buried under all that wall of sound.

I admit MBV can sound distortion heavy and intimidating, especially their earlier stuff, where it has that punk rock energy vibe.

The beauty of Shoegaze is that there are many varieties or flavours. Some are noisy and have more emphasis of distortion, while some focus more on the droning post rock vibe, and there are others that are more mellow and chill. But it’s all to achieve that specific textured sound. That dreamy atmosphere feel, being half awake at 3am.

Maybe you can try something more mellow and chill like Slowdive

Or something more poppy like Chapterhouse

Shoegaze and dream pop.

I will always remember the first day I listened to the otherworldly guitars of my bloody valentine, or the combination of the haunting dreamy vocals and guitars of Cocteau Twins.

I did not know music could sound so mystical and magical. It’s like being in another world’s soundscape.

Funny, I was just listening to Isn’t Anything yesterday after a long time. I do not listen to it as much as their post loveless stuff. Album still sounds fresh. As they mentioned, Only Anything is like one foot in another dimension while still keeping one foot grounded in the real world.

I wish I could tell you man. Kevin has not been answering my calls…

All I can do is substitute.